NEW YORK — Sarah Palin’s new show on Fox News will debut tonight without a segment featuring LL Cool J after the performer complained the network had misleadingly repurposed a 2-year-old interview for the program.

The debut episode of “Real American Stories,” a new series profiling inspirational Americans, was originally set to include a clip of LL Cool J in a segment called “In Their Own Words.” The rapper and actor had taped the interview for an online project called “Real American Stories” that Fox News launched in the summer of 2008, but said he was taken aback to learn this week that the clip would be used on a show with the same name being hosted by Palin. He called it a misrepresentation.

The network said Wednesday that it would excise that portion of the show. It airs in Denver on Fox News at 11 p.m.